Wall covering



Aug. 28, 1934. R MEYER$ 1,971,654

WALL COVERING Filed Dec. 30, 1932 ATTORNEY INVENTOR. I Henry RB. lflveyers Patented Aug. 28, 1934 WALL COVERING Henry R. B. Meyers, Milltown, N. J.

Application December 30, 1932, Serial No. 649,491

4 Claims.

My invention relates to wall paper or cloth, box covering material, wrapping paper, or the like, and more particularly to the method of reproducing accurately matching borders, bands,

5 or trim for such material.

The improvement in the art contemplated by my invention has as one object the very accurate matching of border and sidewall made possible by printing both simultaneously from the same batches of'color, thus effecting a saving to the manufacturer and insuring satisfaction to the user.

Another object of my invention is the reduction of equipment, time, and expense at present involved in the extra set-up for separately printing the border bands.

A further object is to simplify the assembly of sample books and similar displays. Whereas at present the correct borders must be selected and pasted in separately by hand, with paper printed in accordance with my invention the entireoperation of making sample books can be performed by machinery.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 shows a roll of wall paper with one band of border printed on the left selvage;

Fig. 2 is the same as Fig. 1 with the border printed on the right selvage; and

Fig. 3 shows the band or border printed on each side of the sidewall design.

Printing machinery and methods of printing wall paper, wall cloth, and the like, with border bands and sidewall on separate sheets are well known in the art and form no part of my invention. Heretofore, the border bands have been printed in separate machines using separate batches of color from those used in the machine for printing the sidewall design or at a difierent time in the same machine after changing the rollers or matrices. The paper is marketed in rolls and the border bands are on separate rolls each containing several parallel bands. Sales are made from sample books or sheaves which heretofore have been made by assembly of sidewall sheets into book form and selection of the matching border bands which are separately inserted in the book next to the corresponding sidewall sheets. The assembly of sample books represents an appreciable. item in the marketing of wall paper and at present must be done by hand due to the necessity of inserting the correct borders.

In accordance with my invention printing rollers or fiat blocks are used which carry both the sidewall and border design. Obviously any desired number of border bands may be printed on As shown in Fig. 1 a border band 10 is printed on the left selvage of the strip of paper 11 which contains the principal or sidewall designs 12. In Fig. 2 the border is printed on the opposite side. More bands may be desired when a panelling or similar ellect is specified, so, as shown in Fig. 3, border bands may be printed on both sides of the sidewall. For printing sidewall only, a narrower paper or cloth may be run through the machine on which the border roll or portion of roll does not register, thus avoiding running border in excess of actual needs.

With wall paper having the sidewall and border bands printed on the same sheets the preparation of sample books and the like is reduced to a simple machine operation since the borders are already in proper place making human intelligence for selection unnecessary.

Other modifications and variationswill be obvious to those skilled in the art and therefore my invention is not limited by that which is shown in the drawing or described in the specification but only as indicated in the accompanying claims.

I claim:

1'. Wall covering comprising an elongated sheet of flexible material having printed thereon a sidewall design with its vertical extent lengthwise of the sheet, and a border band also printed lengthwise of the sheet along one side of the sidewall design.

2. Wall covering comprising an elongated sheet of flexible material having printed thereon a sidewall design with its vertical extent lengthwise of the sheet, and a border band also printed lengthwise of the sheet along each side of the sidewall design.

3. In the art of printing wall paper and the like, simultaneously printing both the principal design and a matching band of trim design on v the same sheet, the portions of both designs of the same color being printed with the same batch of ink.

said sheet.

HENRY n. B. MEYERS. 

